Quotes About Despair

Do not give hope where there is none.Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.

You'll find sympathy in the dictionary between sh*t and suicide.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

She was limp and pathetic and woozy and I loved her, I realised, even more because I knew how completely it was doomed.

It was as if an embankment had been swept away and I (Neel ) were floundering in a flood , trying not to drown in my grief.

Mere shame couldn't, after all, be counted on to provide the escape of death.

Cat de mult seamana viata din zilele noastre cu un bal mizerabil: un pic de lumina, un pic de muzica, putin dans, apoi intuneric. Priveste. Luminile au fost deja stinse, resturile de mancare au fost deja aruncate cainilor.

He wrote more or less the same way as he dreamed or masturbated: a mixture of compulsion, enthusiasm, despair, disgust, and wretchedness. And in those days he also had an insatiable curiosity to try to understand why people hurt each other, and themselves, without meaning to at all.

A captive may sing but still perish

I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.

We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

It's not that we had no heart or eyes for pain. We were all afraid. We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable

No es que fuéramos unas desalmadas insensibles al dolor. Todas estábamos atemorizadas, todas teníamos que sobrellevar nuestras desgracias, pero desesperar era tanto como desear algo que ya estaba perdido o prolongar lo que ya era de por sí insoportable.

Grief is when your eyes still see but have stopped looking.

He llegado al punto en que ya me da lo mismo morir que seguir viviendo. La Tierra seguirá dando vueltas aunque yo no esté.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

The humiliations and defeats, given with a primitive honesty, end not in frustration, despair or futility, but in hunger, an ecstatic devouring hunger—for more life." - Anais Nin

Now I have this big cheerless studio and I am the saddest man in the world. Everybody says: "What a wonderful place!" But for me it is hell. Hell de luxe, do you get me?

The duality which you divine is the despair, the bankruptcy of logic and philosophy; it is the illusion which holds the human planetary system together.

Les Frontières Humaines[by Ribemont-Dessaigne] came and I looked at the jacket and I do not read it. It looks too good. I am saving it for a rainy day, a day of despair, when one wants to eat his fellow man. I love the looks of it. I believe in it before reading a page.